What is the relationship between tradition and innovation?

Complementary relationship, innovation is based on tradition, improvement, perfection, so as to improve the greater benefits, for example, thousands of years of traditional painting and calligraphy handmade framing techniques, due to the high technical content, cumbersome procedures, framing the completion of the cycle of time is long, has been far from adapting to today's social rhythms, at this time, innovated out of the machine framing, streamlining the process, the technical content of a more scientific and easy to operate, saving costs, freeing up the labor force. Save costs, liberate the labor force, improve economic efficiency.